Sacred baroque architecture and furniture in the parish of Sevnica

Predmet pričujočega magistrskega dela je baročna sakralna arhitektura in oprema v župniji Sevnica, ki je največja župnija po številu cerkva v celjski škofiji, saj šteje poleg župnijske cerkve še trinajst podružničnih cerkva. Ker je zelo malo strokovne literature o omenjeni župniji in njenih cerkvah, sem se odločila, da skušam to vrzel zapolniti s tem magistrskim delom. Magistrsko delo je razdeljeno na dva dela. Prvi del vsebuje topografski popis podružničnih cerkva, in sicer: sv. Florijana v starem mestnem jedru, Matere Božje v Šmarju, sv. Ane nad Šmarjem, sv. Roka nad Sevnico, sv. Martina v Lamperčah, sv. Lovrenca na Žabjeku, sv. Urha na Gornjem Brezovem, sv. Janeza na Dolnjem Brezovem, sv. Benedikta na Žigrskem Vrhu, sv. Štefana v Vranju, sv. Neže v Zagradcu in Marije Vnebovzete na Grački gori. V drugem delu je poudarek na baročni arhitekturi in opremi – njihovi dataciji, avtorstvu ipd. Ker ni veliko virov in literature, smo narejene primerjave s sosednjimi župnijami ter sevniško sakralno umetnost skušali umestiti v širši okvir slovenske baročne sakralne umetnosti. Anica Cevc je pripisala dve sliki s stranskih oltarjev v cerkvi sv. Roka nad Sevnico slikarju Valentinu Metzingerju. Cilj magistrske naloge je ugotoviti avtorstvo ter datacijo vse baročne opreme v podružničnih cerkvah župnije Sevnica. Izkazalo se je, da ne moremo z gotovostjo trditi, za katero umetniško roko gre pri posamezni podružnici, vendar lahko govorimo o nekaterih sorodnostih. Vemo, da je bila Sevnica podružnica videmske pražupnije in posledično pod okriljem kostanjeviškega samostana, zato smo morebitne povezave iskali tudi pri sosednjih župnijah.The subject of this Master’s thesis is sacred baroque architecture and furniture in the parish of Sevnica, which is the largest parish by the number of churches in the diocese of Celje, since it has thirteen branch churches in addition to the parish church. Because there is very little professional literature about the discussed parish and its churches, I decided to fill this gap with this Master’s thesis. The Master’s thesis is divided into two parts. The first part contains a topographic census of the following branch churches: St. Florian in the old town centre, Mother of God in Šmarje, St. Anna above Šmarje, St. Rok above Sevnica, St. Martin in Lamperče, St. Lawrence at Žabjek, St. Urh at Gornje Brezovo, St. John at Dolnje Brezovo, St. Benedict at Žigrski Vrh, St. Stephan in Vranje, St. Neža in Zagradec and St. Marry at Gračka gora. The second part emphasises baroque architecture and furniture – its dating, authorship etc. Because there are not many sources and literature, we compared the parish of Sevnica with neighbouring parishes and tried to place the sacred art of Sevnica into a wider framework of the Slovenian sacred baroque art. Anica Cevc has assigned two paintings from the side altars in the Church of st. Rok above Sevnica to the painter Valentin Metzinger. The aim of the Master’s thesis is to determine the authorship and dating of all the baroque furniture in branch churches of the parish of Sevnica. It turned out that we cannot say with certainty, whose artistic hand was involved in individual branches, but we can point out some similarities. We know that Sevnica was a branch of the grand parish of Videm and consequently under the auspices of the monastery of Kostanjevicatherefore, we were also looking for possible connections in neighbouring parishes